Combination-tool.



P.J.STOLLE. COMBINATION TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 1,1909.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

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WITNESSES ANDREW- & emu o0 Pworo-umouwnzns. WASNINGYDN o c in era FRANK J. STOLLE, OF FORT THOMAS, KENTUCKY.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK J. SToLLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fort Thomas, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of implements commonly known as combination tools; its object being to produce a tool of improved usefulness and varied functions adapted primarily to use in connection with the operation of automobiles, power launches, etc., but also for the use of plumb ers, gas and steam-fitters, electricians and others who may have occasion to deal with pipe and wire connections, where a varied assortment of tools is wanting. Incidentally I have also kept in view the qualities of simplicity and cheapness of construction combined with the maximum strength, durability and convenience of manipulation.

To these ends my invention consists in the device described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1, is a side elevation of the implement; Fig. 2, an endview of the movable clamp of the wrench portion; Fig. 3, is a cross-section on the line y of Fig. l viewed from the right; Fig. 4:, is a cross section on the line z-2 of Fig. 1 viewed from the right.

Referring now to the drawings and the parts indicated by the reference letters, the device entire consists of but three principal separate parts, to-wit: two members, A. 13., constituting a pair of pipe-tongs, held to gether by a pivot, 79, and a sliding jaw, c, constituting part of a monkey-wrench.

The members A. and 13., are, excepting as hereinafter described, formed and pivotally connected in the manner of ordinary pipe tongs, having corresponding curved jaw surfaces in their contiguous faces forming engaging spaces as follows: a comparatively.

large space, (Z, with toothed walls forward of the pivot for manipulating larger pipe, a similar but smaller space, 6, just in rear of the pivot; a plain squared space, 7, with walls for engaging diagonally opposite corners of nuts; and a plain curved space, 9, with walls for manipulating wires. Spaces Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 1, 1909.

Patented Sept. '14, 1909.

Serial No. 475,497.

7L and cutting edges are provided at the central or pivot portion for cutting wires, according to usual methods of construction; and the extreme rear end of the handles may terminate in a nail claw and screw driver respectively.

The head or forward portion of the member A is extended upward by a web, a, supporting the forward or fixed jaw, a and the guides, of, of a monkey-wrench ---these last mentioned portions being widened by lateral flanges of the web, a. The guideway, (i thus formed is inclined upward from front to rear at an angle to the general meeting line of the members A. and B. The movable jaw, c, is formed to engage upon and over the lateral extensions of the guideway, a as shown in Figs. 2 and 4:, and is provided with and reciprocated by means of a worm wheel, 0, carried upon a fore-and-aft pivot seated in the usual manner in the part c, and engaging in milled cross-slots in the upper face of the guideway, a (Fig. 4L).

The upward inclination of the guideway, a gives a double advantage not only in permitting a wider range of opening of the forward jaws of the members A. and B. but

-in rei'idering it easier to operate in confined spaces.

The part B is the pivotal mate to part A and its construction will be sufficiently obvious without further description. The general simplicity of the construction will be apparent; but the shape and disposition of metal in the several parts are such as to enable them to be formed of steel by ordinary processes of drop-forging, leaving but little in the matter of finishing operation to complete and perfect them for assembling. I am thus able to produce a cheap and efficient tool of unusual compact ness and strength, and especially convenient for use and adapted to needs of automobilists, plu mbers,machinists, etc., in situations where a multiplicity of separate tools would ordinarily be required.

I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:

The improved pipe tongs embodying in combination a pair of pivoted members having curved co-acting jaws forward of the pivotal connection, one of said aws having an upwardly extending Web with lateral. 1 In testimony whereofl have hereunto set pro ectlons, i'ernnng an upwardly extendlng my hand 1n presence of two subserrblng Wltstatlonary aw, and a gnlde extenchng from nesses.

the foot thereof at right angles thereto rear- 7 FRANK J, STOLLE. werdly and upwardly, and 21, movable jaw Witnesses: adapted to engage the guideway and adjnst- VALTER A. KNIGHT,

able thereon in relation to the fixed jaw. M. A. JACKSON. 

